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Will WIPP Take Hanford's Nuclear Waste?

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KUNM Call In Show Thu. 3/14 8a: The Department of Energy has proposed to store nuclear waste from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico.  

We'll take your calls and comments. You can also email callinshow@kunm.orgor post your comments online

277-5866 (locally in Abq)

877-899-5866 (toll-free)

Guest: 

Interviews and Audio Statements: 

  • Senator Tom Udall (D)

031413UdallClipWEB.mp3

  • Jack Volpato, Jr. (R), Chair of the Eddy County Commission

031313JackVolpatoJrWeb.mp3

Upcoming related events: 

Wednesday, March 20th, 10 am to noon

  • meeting with DOE to discuss the draft request to remove the tank waste prohibition in the WIPP permit
  • Embassy Suites, 1000 Woodward Pl, NE in Albuquerque.

Tuesday, April 23 at 6 pm

  • dinner and discussion about high-level waste coming to New Mexico
  • Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice, 202 Harvard, SE.
Elaine Baumgartel was KUNM's News Director from 2013 to 2019. She was local Morning Edition host from 2007 through 2012 and she regularly hosted the station's live news and public affairs show for some years. Elaine originally came on board at KUNM as a volunteer and student employee in 2003.
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